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Former SW Fan boy, stupid enough to pay to play SWG. Played some SW TOR but underwhelmed
Fan of WW2 Games in general and the 2 most insanly realistic wargames ever created. Operation Flashpoint (death from ANY distance in less than a second) and WW2 Online (death from ANYWHERE at ANY DISTANCE after running for five miles...
Less of a gamer than I used to be but a big fan still of RPGs and RTS type games. Less so FPS games but thats just me.
Lucasarts: The Last Hurrah?
on 06.22.2012
Lucasarts, once the creator of some of the most awesome point and click type adventure games in the world.
Created some awesome star wars games to, some of which were not just good star wars games but good games in their own right.
Now reduced to what? 1 game every couple of years?
With the lacklustre Force Unleashed 2 could Star Wars 1313 be the last chance to turn things around at Lucasarts or is it too little too late?.
The Past
First off lets not forget the sheer awesomeness that is Lucasarts back catalogue of games, from Monkey Island, The Dig, Full Throttle, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Battlefront, TIE Fighter and the X-Wing series, Republic Commando, Galactic Battlegrounds (OK it wasnt fantastic but it was fun), KOTOR,Secret Weapons over Normandy, Force Unleashed and probably some more.
Sure their were the not so good games like Obi Wan, Force Commander, Force Unleashed 2,Starfighter and EP1 :TPM (geugh what a name) and more to boot. But there was alot of genuinely good stuff.
Sure some lacked effort to say the least but alot of them were genuinely good games regardless of being a SW fan or not. In those days Lucasarts and the other developers it used put alot of effort into the games they made (Mostly anyway)
Alot of them also supported a big modding community pretty similar to the scale of games like Skyrim, Obivion, Half Life etc.
The Present
Um... yeah we have had in recent years The Force Unleashed I and II, SW Kinect and SW TOR.
I think there was a Clone Wars game too but I was dumb enough to buy that on steam...
The Force Unleashed (TFU from this point as I fear for my keyboard) was pretty good in my opinion, there were moments of frustration and some very nice DLC but overall it was a fun experience.
Shamefully although it looked awesome and had some pretty cool effects, its sequel wasnt as good. It pretty much HAS to have last entry to end it because one of the endings kinda demands it (No details as it would be a spoiler to say the least)
I havent played SW Kinect because I dont have a playing area remotely big enough for it to work correctly but my brother seems to like it so I'll probably pick it up when I move house.
SW Tor, well... I'm still kinda on the fence. I want to like it, I want to play it but there is just something I cant put my finger on... something it lacks... But I struggle to say what...
The Future
Well I would like to say there will be a reboot of X-Wing with next gen graphics which has you blowing stuff up in space with location based damage as ships explodes spilling bits and the odd crew member into space.
But there isnt -as far as anyone knows- anything like that in the pipeline.
I'd like to say there will be a massive scale clone wars RTS powered by the latest Total War engine.
But there isnt.
I would definatly like a 3rd KOTOR or some other RPG set in star wars in any time line.
Sure Star Wars 1313 MAY have RPG elements but it isnt looking to be a pure RPG.
What about sequels to the underlooked games like Republic Commando? That game was gritty star wars (especially the bad ass wookiees and the clone ship)
Star Wars 1313
I think this could be the last hurrah for Lucasarts, I hope its fooking fantastic, it looks based off the work that was done for the Force Unleashed games. But that main thing is this. I dont care if it looks like a turd if it makes me want to play it for 3 days straight eating nothing and becoming a hermit because I enjoy it that much (and probably ending up with dead pets and a divorce)
A guy can wish eh?
They just dont make stuff as good as they used to remotely. SW TOR is failing, SW Kinect was generally average review wise
And as far as we know there is nothing else in the pipeline.
Come on lucasarts, you've got a ridiculour back catalogue of inspiration to use. Use it.
TIE Fighter reboot anyone?
Star Trek Online: Season 5 opinions + state of the game
on 06.15.2012
Its been a hellish amount of time since I've last posted here. I no longer play games to the err "amount" that I used to but still keep up to date with whats going on and whats on the horizon.
After finally convincing the other half that her old pc (Which could just barely run Sims 3 with a frame rate probably below 15, and once took 12 hours to install half of starcraft 2) was past it and that mine was far superior.
Any how back to business. There had been a few changes since I last played STO, in the form of a new featured episode , some new ships (New Enterprise with a really naf new captain) and the duty officer system.
To sum these up I'll say Meh+, Mmm and Wat ?
The featured episode had massive potential being based on a loose end they didnt tie up during DS9 the TV series. It was very hit and miss to be honest, the fights against the dominion and their ships were fun, the bajor bit was boring and it might look nice but the non combat gameplay felt shoe horned and ill fitting. The cutscene flying into the wormhole was very well done and to be honest looked indentical to the TV series, but why was this polish not throughout the episode?.
The federation prison was nice to lookout but with the silliest security I have ever seen, Holographic prison guards?. Really?? . No flaws in that design?. No power issues?.
The space suit part was fine and different and then spoilt by the final combat bit which wasnt well balanced for me.
Overall it was a nice try and good in places but it felt rushed as if they'd struggled with what they wanted to do.
The new enterprise design was very nice, coupled with a new interior and it felt polished and the variations made sense. The captain of the enterprise (and infact DS9) were bad to the extreme with no backstory or anything to make you think "wow these guys are up there with Kirk, Picard et all and I can see why they are captain of 2 of the most important assets in the federation.
The duty officer system was a nice addition but to be honest it shoukd have been there from the start. But yet again your Bridge Officers dont really play any part. One of the most important things STO needed to get right was your crew. Star Trek wouldnt be Star Trek without the crew being involved, there are soo many stories that focus on the crew not always the captain but STO doesnt do this. I would always have liked more focus on the backgrounds of these crew members, their history and what makes them tick.
Why cant my XO refuse to let me beam down or challenge an order?. It means I as captain have to make a decision, which is what star trek captains are all about. I might get it wrong but thats the fun of it.
Star Trek Online has excellent combat (Even the ground is better now but I feel it should be cover based ala gears of war etc). But it doesnt have good non combat features. There are countless episodes across star trek and even films where no phaser or torpedo is fired, STO doesnt do this and its non combat bits are an after thought rather than a focus.
STO has made the same wrong decisions that SWG did many years ago, it launched with no space and (if memory serves) no jedi. When it then brought jedi back it then messed the game up by making everyones focus becoming jedi and then causing combat system revamps which ultimately ended the game. STO hasnt made the same major mistakes yet but needs to work on the non combat side and the involvement of bridge officers, as the moment their just pets....
And AoC struck me down and destroyed my fun
on 07.13.2008
I was enjoying myself more than I had in many, many MMOs for a long time. I wasnt killing truly hideous amounts of stuff. I wasnt killing stuff for silly rare quest drops. I wasnt even getting pwned very much.
My Necromancer was fun to play with, and had some awesome effects. So I thought I'd do a Barbarian (Cimmerian naturally) I was slamming, smashing and goring people. I even figured out a mostly sucessful way to finish people 80% of the time.
Then my immersion got ripped out from under me at the same time as a kick in the nuts.
Now the archytype for my Barbarian is rogue. Which kinda makes sense because a barbarians all damage and dodging shit really, just no stealth right?. Wrong.
My first "awakening of a Barbarian mission" was to sneak past some guards and evesdrop...
A barbarian sneaking...
Thats like Hulk being asked to infiltrate a base...
Necro's been awesome. Gonna try a Tempest of Set soon before they nerf the level 30 uber lightning.
How SWG almost destroyed my love of Star Wars
on 03.23.2008
SWG.... sigh.
It could have been so much better. I was enthralled when the original news came out that it was being developed. The screenshots and details looked good, it sounded good.
Beta came out and I kept watching it (got into beta 3). I didnt play it silly amounts during beta, but I did play a bit, mostly exploring planets rather than grinding. Seemed really good.
Then SOE being utter cocks delayed the european launch six months. You simply couldnt frigging get SWG over here. So in protest I forgot about for 6 months ish.
I got SWG, installed it and after alot of fun grinded my first character. The old character system was fun in some ways. You could make your own profession out of the trees. Looking back the player cities, modified jedi grind and vehicles made it more fun. BUT
Thats where the game started going wrong. Sure jedi had been there from the start, but now the way to do it was clear. So almost everyone started it. I personally didnt bother and though I did get village access I didnt do much quest wise bar helping some friends. I did do (I think) 5 of the 6 unlocks just before the system got owned.
But everyone 90% of the time was jedi grinding..
No one around for events, pvp or content. Just pure grinding. And because almost everyone was doing jedi the devs focused on that. Eventually we did get the Combat Upgrade (which WAS needed and did make it better) but still it was jedi focused.
They should have focused it on the Galactic Civil War using the many battlefields they put in the game. Those pretty much never worked and were never touched again.
So now we're stuck with the NGE. When SOE destroyed the old system and made jedi a starting profession. So sure now theres not much problem with players grinding. There ARE more quests and content than before but frankly the shite SOE community team, lack of focus and jedi focus has lead to an awful lot of hate against jedi.
And worse alot less players. I'll admit new SOE stuff has made it alot better. But I cant bring myself to play it because there were times you wished Star Wars didnt exist because of how crap the game was.
If The Force Unleashed sucks that'll be it for SW Gaming.
So I finally admitted defeat to Sony....
on 03.19.2008
Intending to buy a PS3 today.
I've been thinking about it for some time, wondering if getting a 360 was better. I dont game much online anymore and frankly I despise windows live and Microsoft in general after years of working with shite O/S and PCs.
I know there have been cuts on 360s, but I cant warrant the money for an elite when I can get a PS3 with Blu Ray for £230 ish (we have 20% staff discount over easter for hitting sales targets 2 months early).
Looking at Blu Ray players the dam things cost about £150 ish for a basic one, unless you want a pc mounted one.
OK there are a few games I'd love to play (Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey) that are only on 360 but the reliabilty of 360s is an issue as I have friends who's have died.
I have a nice Sony Bravia 26" HD TV so thats not an issue, and good reliable , wireless net access.
Anyone got any thoughts?
I feel like er a soulstorm
on 03.07.2008
No thats not when you eat a shit load of insanely powerful curry, drunk a litre of cheap lager, jump up and down for 5 minutes then do the mother of vomiting spasms whilst crapping your pants.
Anyway its Dawn of Wars new expansion, Soulstorm adding the very nice dark eldar (sadistic, moral destroying eldar). And strangly sexy bitches in power armour, the Sisters of Battle.
Currently fighting the campaign as Chaos on normal difficulty. Already cut off Dark Eldar supply lines and hammered them back to 2 territorys, one of which is their base.
Looking forward to taking the other 2 planets. Well aside from Imperial Guard one, as that apparently has a uber basilisk...
Also somewhat like my lords wargear. Flaming hands? oh yes please...


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I believe my "expert" more than you.
 And I believe the fact that you yourself put "expert" in quotations shows the lack of his expertise.
Didn't say the round was more powerful than a .30-06 or .308. I said from a reliable source the round could penetrate 1/4" steel at 700 yards.
<color=red> And I've proven, with that scary thing called FACTS, that its not possible. Ya know, those number things I posted a little bit ago? Those are called facts.
So what is the criteria for a round to transition from an intermediate cartridge to being considered high powered? Given that innocent human targets are the concern, why is that nomenclature relevant?
 For starters, as has been stated before, nomenclature is important when you're trying to strip people of their rights.
As far as the transition from intermediate to high powered, let me throw some of those magical things called facts at you again. (These definitions come from the firearm industry, so I know you'll dismiss them anyway because they don't fit your agenda)
"An intermediate rifle cartridge is a round that is less powerful than a cartridge designed for a typical battle rifle (30.06, .308, 7.26x54 etc) but more powerful than the average pistol round (.45ACP, 9mm, .40S&W etc). Recoil of a rifle that fires an intermediate cartridge is significantly lower than that of a rifle firing a full size round, which makes it easier to control the recoil. Effective range for a intermediate cartridge is between 250 and 500 meters (270-550 yards)"
So, considering the .223 meets, (hang on let me check, oh yeah that's right) ALL of those criteria, it is an intermediate cartridge. It is less powerful than a .308 round, more powerful than a .45ACP round, and the maximum effective range for a human target is about 450-525 yards. Pretty sure that meets the criteria for an intermediate cartridge. Not a "high powered rifle" as you and the lame stream media like to proclaim.


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Rehab is the most important thing to a major surgery like this, and I hit it hard! I started going to GastownPhysio and Pilates 2 weeks after surgery to help speed up my recovery process. It did. I went to see my surgeon 6 weeks after surgery and I had blown his mind. Physio was doing the trick and I was well on my way. After lots of stretching and Pilates, I finally graduated to being able to ride my roadbike. I was riding the demonstration forest and riding to work at the bike shop all the time; basically to stay sane.
Another very different thing that I have been doing this season is FILMING A FULL LENGTH MOVIE. That's right, I will be producing a full length movie with my close group of friends who also happen to be some of the top athletes in the mountain bike industry. We plan to release it for free online at the end of the year. Filming has given me a way to stay creative and involved with the sport I love so much while I cannot partake in the contest season.
Living in British Columbia, you have to take part advantage of the amazing nature that we have around here. I have gotten back into fishing and its awesome. There's something about standing out on a river or lake and being surrounded by nature that makes me insanely happy. I still haven't caught anything but its still a bit early…
Now I can ride a bike again! It has been a long 5 months, and thanks to GastownPhysio, I am way ahead of my estimated recovery, and able to do shuttle laps and bikepark days! I still have to take it very easy, but nothing is better than being able to shred your bike in the middle of the woods!
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Moving away from the shadow of Satyam scam, software exporter Mahindra Satyam today said the company would be repositioned as a complete Information and Communications Technology (ICT) firm from just an IT outsourcing player.
Tech Mahindra bought Satyam in April and encouraged by the addition of 35 new clients is focusing on expanding service horizons by investing in building new technologies.
"We plan to position Mahindra Satyam as an ICT firm. The focus is on converting an IT company to ICT company," Mahindra Satyam CEO CP Gurnani told PTI.
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Lillis, T.; Hewings, A.; Vladimirou, D. and Curry, M. J.
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To explore how the global status of English influences knowledge production and circulation, this paper focuses on citations in English-medium national and English-medium international journal articles. Drawing on text, ethnographic, and corpus data from a longitudinal study in four national contexts, we argue that citation practices vary significantly along geolinguistic lines – that is, in terms of who gets cited, where and by whom – and that such differences are highly consequential. We argue that multilingual scholars face particularly difficult decisions which can in part be understood as a tension between the politics of knowledge building and knowledge measuring. We conclude by calling for greater recognition of this tension in discussions about English as an academic lingua franca and in Anglophone centre gatekeeping practices.
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This paper describes the use of spreadsheet programs for the numerical solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations. A complete 123 macro program is presented and applied to obtain the approximate solution of a model problem in electrical engineering. Through user macros, spreadsheets can now function in the same way as programs written in conventional programming languages. They provide a clear and direct means of entering data and formulas. This important feature will allow the students to easily experiment with their model problems
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Well, if only. Legions of squeaky-voiced footballers showing their crass tattoos to each other and trying to force their (allegedly) botoxed faces into threatening scowls… Someone mod that for me. Please. What is happening is that the Creative Assembly, best known for making splendid strategy games with colons in the title, are trying their hand at making a sports game. Back of the net…
Or rather returning to making sports games, as some of their earliest work was porting EA sports titles to the PC. It's worth observing it's their Australian studio handling it rather than the main UK unit. That arm of the company has the awful misfire Stormrise to its name (whose creative lead has since, ah, parted ways with CA), as a well as a divisive DS port of the old Sonic games, so it's perhaps too soon to start hoping CA will revolutionise sports games in the way they did RTS, with Shogun: Total War wayback when.
Hopefully it's a big and serious project, however, with the full weight of CA's experience brought to bear. If you consider yourself to be a lead gameplay programmer and live/fancy living in Australia, you could even apply to work on it.
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The learner will:
recognize Africa on the map and identify it as a continent.
state the origin of Kwanzaa.
describe the general characteristics of Kwanzaa.
construct a kinara, or candle holder, to be used in the following lessons.
interpret vocabulary through music and movement.
Seven Candles of Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney and other Kwanzaa resource books (see Bibliographical References)
African drum music (see Bibliographical References)
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Map of the world
Materials for making a kinara. See Attachment One: Kinara Patterns or directions for a 3-D kinara in Kwanzaa Fun (see Bibliographical References)
Students copies of Attachment Two: What We Learned
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Anticipatory Set:
Have the students sit on the floor with their eyes closed as you play one track of some African drum music (see Bibliographical References). Tell them to let their imaginations create pictures in their heads as they listen. After the piece is done, ask the students to describe what they heard and saw and how it made them feel.
Tell the students that this music comes from Africa (name the specific country, if possible). Show the students where Africa is located on a world map. Tell them that Africa is the second largest continent and it contains many countries, cultures and habitats. Share some of your knowledge of the distinct places in Africa. Define culture as a form of civilization or group of people that share particular beliefs, arts and customs (traditions).
Tell the students that Kwanzaa is an African-American holiday. Kwanzaa was developed in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor at California State University, to celebrate the African heritage of many Americans and increase unity and pride within the black community. (Kwankaa is not a traditional African celebration) Although Africa is an incredibly diverse continent, the celebration is based on first-harvest celebrations of various African cultures. The seven principles of Kwanzaa are based on a compilation of many African traditions and spoken in Swahili, which is a language that is spoken in many countries of Africa. (Help students relate this to their own experience by asking if they or anyone they know celebrates Kwanzaa or another holiday related to their familys cultural heritage.)
Read aloud the introduction from the book Seven Candles of Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Read some of the other resources to give the students some general information about the celebration (see Bibliographical References).
Check the students understanding of Kwanzaa by asking the following questions:
What does Kwanzaa mean? (first fruits of the first harvest)
Why was Kwanzaa developed? (to celebrate African heritage and unite black Americans)
When does this celebration begin and end? (December 26 January 1)
How long does Kwanzaa last? (seven days)
What distinguishes each day, or what is the focus of each day? (a different principle)
What is a principle? (a guiding beliefsomething to implement in daily life)
Discussion Questions: How does Kwanzaa develop a sense of community? What community is enhanced? How is Kwanzaa an action for the common good? What need did Dr. Karenga seek to meet by developing Kwanzaa?
Teach the students that each day represents a different principle and a candle is lit representing that principle. The candles/principles are called mishumaa (mee-SHOO-mah) and the candle holder is called a kinara (kee-NAR-ah). Talk about what a principle is. Ask the students to think about how having principles is good for the community. Brainstorm some principles together that the classroom community values or exhibits in order to get along and get their work done (patience, working together, perseverance, respecting others, honesty and so on.) Keep this list to see if any of their ideas are principles of Kwanzaa.
Each student makes a kinara. Each day for the rest of the unit they will learn about one principle and light one candle in this kinara. They may color the candles or use colored paper. The first three candles are green, the middle candle is black and the last three candles are red. They should not color or make the flames today. See Attachment One: Kinara Patterns or directions for a 3-D kinara in Kwanzaa Fun (see Bibliographical References).
Play the African music and allow the students to create free movement as they chant the new vocabulary words (Kwanzaa, mishumaa and kinara).
Ford, Juwanda. K is for Kwanzaa. Cartwheel Books, 1997. ISBN: 0590922009
Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Celebrating Kwanzaa. Holiday House, 1994. ISBN: 0823411303
Johnson, Dolores. The Childrens Book of Kwanzaa: A Guide to Celebrate the Holiday. Aladdin Paperbacks, 1997. ISBN: 0689815565
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Seven Candles of Kwanzaa. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993. ISBN: 0803712928
Robertson, Linda. Kwanzaa Fun. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003. ISBN: 0753456850
Jay, Stephen. Africa: Drum, Chant, and Instrumental Music. Elektra Records 9720732
Various Artists. All the Best from Africa: 20 Tribal Songs. Madacy Records. ASIN: B000000K45
Kids Domain. Kwanzaa Clip art http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/kwanzaa/ January 7, 2004
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Kwanzaa |
Umoja |
Kujichagulia |
Ujima |
Ujamma |
Nia |
Kuumba |
Imani |
Excellent resource to teach my students all about Kwanza. Thank you very much.
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Did you know that China reversed its deforestation trend in 1989 (PDF: especially pp. 13,14) and has expanded its forests by close to 47 million hectares, according to national data collected by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This translates to a 33 percent increase in forest biocapacity, based on Global Footprint Network's calculations.
Or did you know that Costa Rica brought the destruction of its forests to a halt in the mid-1980s after a 47 percent drop in its forest land biocapacity since 1961, then climbing again by 9.2 percent since 2000?
Or that the top net exporters of forest products are middle- and upper-income countries that are rich in forest biocapacity, with the largest ones being Canada, Russia and Sweden? And that the top net importers are China, the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan? This refutes the hypothesis that forest overharvesting linked to biodiversity loss is mainly driven by high-income countries liquidating assets of low-income, tropical countries, although unreported illegal logging may be skewing the underlying data.
This is not to say that the overall global scorecard of forests' health is a good one, however. Our planet lost 183.8 million hectares of forested area between 1961 and 2011, according to the U.N. FAO. And the dilapidation of forests marches on, as forest ecosystems are being sacrificed to primarily agriculture but also logging, mining and economic development.
According to Global Footprint Network's Ecological Footprint accounting framework, our planet lost more than 365.5 million global hectares (gha) of forest biocapacity over the same five decades. What does this mean? That the capacity of our planet to generate additional forest material year over year has been greatly diminished.
Meanwhile, the demand for forest products (paper, timber etc.) has increased by 41 percent over those 50 years, and the need for carbon capture, an ecological service that forests provide, has surged by more than 260 percent. Assuming that carbon emissions stop increasing now and that we quit consuming forests products, it would take twice the current global forest biocapacity to absorb all the carbon emissions that are generated around the world. A crazy feat if you consider this would be equivalent to virtually the entire biocapacity of cropland and grazing lands on the planet combined.
Last but not least, the loss of biodiversity is one of the most significant negative impacts of the destructive human activities that forests are subjected to. Tropical rainforests, which cover 7 percent of the Earth's terrestrial surface, provide habitat for at least two-thirds of the world's terrestrial biodiversity. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, for instance, still accounts for 3 percent of the world's forest biocapacity despite a 15.1 percent drop in its forest land biocapacity since 1961. In this period, it destroyed 23 million hectares with an intensification of the deforestation between the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Judging by our most recent data, overharvesting of forest products primarily in forest ecosystems in Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan) and Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania) seems to be the result of local demand rather than consumption outside the nations' borders. But there also may be additional timber trade that is not recorded on the official books.
Experts agree, and available data seems to confirm it: Global deforestation has been slowing down, especially in the Brazilian Amazon, which contains a whopping 27 percent of the world's forest land biocapacity.
However, illegal and unreported logging activities happening under the cover of legal permits adds a degree of uncertainty to this picture. The development and enforcement of international agreements such as the U.N. Forum on Forests, national policies such as China's Forest Law and corporate actions by companies such as Asia Pulp and Paper Group are obviously still a work in progress.
Tomorrow, on March 21, the world observes the International Day of the Forests for the third year in a row, as established by a 2012 United Nations General Assembly resolution to focus on the critical role of forests for our sustainable development and that of future generations.
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The Growing Reach of Beijing's Food Ecological Footprint
Xie Gaodi from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the lead author of a recent research paper published in the journal Sustainability. He recently talked with Global Footprint Network about the unsustainability of giant cities.
Between 2008 and 2012, the population of Beijing climbed from 23 million to more than 30 million—a whopping 30 percent in just four years. One direct impact of this rapid demographic surge, which includes permanent residents and "floating" population such as tourists, was the drastic increase in Beijing's reliance on food produced in areas located outside of, and increasingly further out from, the city's boundaries, stresses a new article in the journal Sustainability authored by several researchers in China. The challenge caused by Beijing's insufficient agricultural resources was compounded by high land prices, the researchers pointed out.
Over those five years, Beijing's dependence on non-local food supplies grew from 48 percent to 64 percent of total food consumption in the metropolitan area, according to the article, "The Outward Extension of an Ecological Footprint in City Expansion: The Case of Beijing."
The authors introduce the notion of Ecological Footprint distance (abbreviated as Def) to reveal the average distance that natural resources required to support a population's Ecological Footprint travel to reach that population.
Researchers stressed that food accounts for the significantly biggest part of Beijing's consumed biocapacity in terms of weight.
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2014: Year in Review
As we are greeting the New Year, we want to take a moment to pause, thank our generous supporters and celebrate what we accomplished over the past 12 months. Here are the highlights.
A major milestone for us was the launch, last June in London, of Phase II of ERISC with our partners in the finance industry. Environmental Risk Integration in Sovereign Credit, a research project that seeks to quantify how environmental risk can impact the balance sheet of nations, is a joint program with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative. We are grateful to participating institutions Caisse des Dépôts, the European Investment Bank, First State Investments, HSBC, Kempen Capital Management, KfW and Standard & Poor's, who embarked on that journey with us. We are looking forward to announcing first research results and findings in 2015.
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Footprint Conversations Around the World
Our staff has been busy this past month spreading the word about the Ecological Footprint at conferences and engagements around the world. Click locations below to learn more about our work.
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Statement on U.S.-China Climate Agreement
Statement by Mathis Wackernagel, President, Global Footprint Network
The landmark U.S.-China climate change agreement announced this week is a game changer for our energy future because it represents strong recognition of the need to wind down fossil fuel use to zero within a few decades. What had been a physical necessity but a political taboo is now being acknowledged by the two countries with the largest CO2 emissions.
Other countries have been waiting on the sidelines for the United States and China to act on climate change. So President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping's commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and boost renewable energy adoption by 2025 and 2030 respectively—just 10 and 15 years away—sends a promising signal to the world community on the path to the Paris climate summit at the end of next year.
The new goals would keep the United States on the trajectory to achieve deep economy-wide carbon emission reductions on the order of 80 percent by 2050, according to the White House. China, meanwhile, has targeted total energy consumption coming from zero-emission sources to around 20 percent by 2030. Both actions will happen well within the lifetimes of many people today.
These targets represent a significant shift in political momentum and suggest that moving out of fossil fuels may finally have won mainstream acceptance.
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Deconstructing Carbon before UN Climate Summit
Charged up by activists mobilizing for the UN Climate Summit in New York next week, we delved into our carbon Footprint data to see if we could shed light on the very intractable debates swirling around nations' responsibilities for reducing emissions. In the first graph below, our intrepid research analyst David Zimmerman found while EU countries toot their horns about declining emissions (as represented by the blue line below), the picture is not so simple.
Here's what David discovered after creating an index starting at 1993: EU emissions are actually increasing (except for a 2009 recession dip) when you account for all emissions resulting from consumption by EU residents (as shown in the red line). The measurement includes goods produced outside the EU but ultimately consumed inside its borders, and excludes goods produced within the EU that are consumed outside its borders.
In a second graphic, David compared carbon emissions within a nation's borders (domestic carbon emissions) to carbon emissions embodied in national consumption, which includes carbon associated with the production of goods outside the nation that were ultimately consumed inside the nation's borders.
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Fueling Public Debate on Swiss Competitiveness
Given that Swiss residents consume four times more than Swiss ecosystems can regenerate, what should the nation do to stay competitive?
That was the question that Global Footprint Network and partner BAKBASEL was charged with addressing in a new report that launched Sept. 16.
The objective of the study, commissioned by Switzerland's Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) and four other ministries, was to establish the impact on Swiss competitiveness of current resource trends.
The report's findings were unveiled Sept. 16 in Bern to spark debate at the fifth public town hall event of Dialog Nachhaltige Entwicklung Schweiz ("Dialogue on Sustainable Development in Switzerland"), a program sponsored by ARE.
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Partner Profile: Footprint Changes Policy in Vancouver
Dr. Jennie Moore,
Director, Sustainable Development and Environment Stewardship
British Columbia Institute of Technology
School of Construction and the Environment
In 2006, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) became the first post-secondary educational institution to join Global Footprint Network's partner network, which now numbers 76 institutions applying the Ecological Footprint methodology around the world. Dr. Jennie Moore, director of sustainable development and environmental stewardship at BCIT's School of Construction and the Environment, has led the charge, applying Footprint science to make real policy changes for the Vancouver city government.
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Japan Footprint Exposes Risks to Food Security
Japan Footprint Exposes Risks to Food Security
Global Footprint Network presentation in Tokyo focuses on ASEAN reliance
The ASEAN region is one of the fastest growing areas in the world, with a population of approximately 600 million people and a combined GDP that would make it the planet's eighth largest economy. Despite these gains, the region faces myriad challenges: Large numbers of the population remain in poverty, while its member states are among the most vulnerable to climate change, deforestation, depletion of fisheries and other ecological pressures. These resource constraints pose threats to the region's energy and food supplies.
But what does this mean for Japan?
That question was the focus of a recent presentation in Tokyo given by Global Footprint Network Research Economist Katsunori Iha, and Asia Regional Director Pati Poblete hosted by the Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund.
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Spreading the Word on Earth Overshoot Day 2014
Media outlets around the world helped share the news of Earth Overshoot Day this year, and thanks to countless partners and supporters, a conversation about our planet's ecological deficit also took off on social media.
Earth Overshoot Day is an annual observance meant to bring attention to the risks of humanity's growing ecological deficit. This year, August 19 marked the date when humanity exhausted nature's budget for the entire year.
Highlights of Earth Overshoot Day 2014 media coverage included articles in Le Monde in France, El Mundo in Spain, and the Brasil Post in Brazil. Earth Overshoot Day also made the front page of La Stampa in Italy for the second year in a row. An online article in The Guardian in the UK generated 92 comments. In Switzerland, a Q&A with Bruno Oberle, director of the Swiss Ministry of Environment, was featured on the ministry's website.
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SimplyBiz puts accounting system online
SimplyBiz is offering an online book-keeping system to help IFAs with FSA returns.
Accounting Solutions is designed to help advisers complete their FSA Gabriel returns and is available exclusively to SimplyBiz members for a monthly fee of £10. It has been developed with accountancy software firm Arithmo Accounting Solutions.
SimplyBiz compliance director Gary Kershaw says: "Advisers with problems completing their Gabriel returns constituted nearly 50 per cent of the total number of calls into the compliance helpdesk last year, therefore we know there is a real need out there for a bookkeeping system which can produce reports in a format compatible with Gabriel, and we are delighted to be able to offer this exclusively to our members."
Arithmo director Mike Parkes says: "Our main goal was to create an easy-to-use system without any jargon."
Finance and Technology Research Centre director Ian Ian McKenna says: "At £10 a month, you do not have to achieve a lot of economies for this to pay for itself. Regulatory reporting ought to be possible for advisers to achieve far more cost-effectively using technology so it sounds like a good thing to me."
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Darwin, C. R. to Crichton-Browne, James
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Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".
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Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.
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Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.
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April 7,
My dear Sir
Many thanks for your two last communications. The case
of the pregnant woman is truly wonderful, and I am particularly glad
to have read it, as it seems conclusive; but I doubt whether it will do
to give it in any work not strictly medical. Perhaps I may manage to give it
wrapped up, or anyhow allude to it. Dr. Baird the Hypnotist, gives
somewhat analogous cases, but I did not dare to trust him. I have
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Yours most truly | Ch. Darwin.
I hope your health is not worse.
P.S. A long time ago I asked Prof. Donders of Utrecht (who most kindly aids me in all sorts of ways) about the iris, and a few days ago I received an answer, and a present of a huge book, published by the Sydenham Soc., from which I infer that the contraction and dilation of pupil is a very complex affair depending on many conditions—movements of the eyes, etc. I suspect it will be safest for me just to say what others have said, and then add a caution. Perhaps, however, I may hereafter hear something definite from you, and I shall be able to judge better when I have read parts of Donder's work.
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CD refers to Henry Holland and Thomas Laycock, and to Holland 1858 and Laycock 1839, 1840, and 1860, all of which he cited in support of his argument that concentrated attention to any part of the body could induce physical effects (Expression, p. 339 n. 33). CD's annotated copies of the first and second editions of Holland's Chapters on mental physiology (Holland 1852 and 1858) are in the Darwin Library--CUL (see Marginalia 1: 386). See also letter to William Turner, 28 March [1871] and nn. 11 and 12, and letter to ?, 7 April [1871] and n. 3. - +
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See letter to James Crichton-Browne, 26 March [1871] and n. 7, and letter from James Crichton-Browne, [29--31 March 1871]. CD refers to Frans Cornelis Donders and Donders 1864. Although CD had been in correspondence with Donders about the physiology of the eye since 1869, his only known query specifically about the iris is in his letter to Donders of 18 March 1871 (see also letter from F. C. Donders, 28 March 1871 and n. 5). CD cited Donders 1864 on involuntary movements of the iris in Expression, p. 172; there is an abstract in the Darwin Archive--CUL of a passage from Donders 1864 on the contraction of the pupil (DAR 53.1: B38).


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Hello Mark, tell us a bit about yourself, who are you and what did you do in the past?
Mark Healey: My name is Mark, and I've been in the games industry for far too long - my first title was a budget game on the C64, last thing I worked on was Black&White at Lionhead studios. I've been working with Peter Molyneux since Theme Park...
What is Rag Doll Kung Fu all about?
Imagine having a Kung Fu Fight with string puppets, except you don't have to worry about getting the strings tangled up, and you don't have to have a kung fu fight.
You control the characters on screen with the mouse - there are no pre-scripted animations in the game - it's all up to you - to walk, you have to literally pick up one foot, then place it in front of the other.
Sounds tricky maybe, but it doesn't take long before you're spinning through the air like a Russian gymnast.
This means you get to create your own style, and can act out whatever you feel like, and of course, if you really feel like it, you can have a fight.
If all goes well, and I get the online stuff working properly, then you can act out various silly situations with people all over the world, have dancing competitions, chatting, fighting, that kind of thing.
I already have multiplayer working on a single machine - you can plug in up to eight mice (with a usb hub), and simulate all types of strange behaviour. (Thanks to J STOOKEY for that cool multi mice code he wrote for MAME!)
It's about Chi power.
Where did the idea come from exactly? Have you always had a passion for Kung Fu?
It started two summers ago, me and some friends decided to make a short kung fu film, just for some laughs. We had a budget of 50 pounds. We had some really bad fake bald heads, and the stunt man was a floppy blow up doll. It seemed natural to make a game to go with it.
How long have you been working on this game and were there other people involved? If so, would you mind telling us?
It's taken about a year and a half, in my spare time (I work as a full time artist at Lionhead studios!) which has also involved learning C++ and DirectX.
Well, of course there are the people in the film, and I've collaborated with various friends, there's no way I could understand Microsoft Documentation without an interpreter.
What else - apart from Rag Doll Kung Fu - are you working on at the moment?
I'm helping to finish Fable, specifically, I've been working on some pre-rendered cinematics, which basically involves panning a camera over these huge, amazing fresco style murals, very skillfully painted by our in house Egyptian Rembrandt, Kareem. (None other than Puk Bul Kim, from the movie)
What piece of art/music/movie/... do you think we all should have experienced?
As much of it as possible!
What are your future plans for Rag Doll Kung Fu?
To finish it this summer. Then put it online.
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Watermelon is the perfect compliment to summer and this sweet and tangy jello mold delivers on refreshing summer flavor. Reminiscent of the watermelon Italian ices you remember from the ice cream truck or the pool snack bar as a kid but with an adult twist. It is made with fresh watermelon and tart lime juice with a little splash of vodka for an extra kick. I wrote this recipe especially for the Cooking Channel where you can find the recipe complete with process photos.
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The status of determinism in an uncontrollable world
UNSPECIFIED (1996) The status of determinism in an uncontrollable world. In: Conference on Law and Prediction in Natural Science in the Light of Our New Knowledge from Chaos Research, INST WISSENSCHAFTSTHEOR INT F0RSCHUNGSZENTRUM, SALZBURG, AUSTRIA, JUL, 1994. Published in: LAW AND PREDICTION IN THE LIGHT OF CHAOS RESEARCH, 473 pp. 103-114.
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The modern theory of non-linear dynamical systems [chaos] has certainly taught us a salutary lesson about unpredictability in classical physics. It is less obvious what it should have taught us about determinism. While many regard deterministic metaphysics as triumphantly vindicated, Popper (1982), for example, sees its only real support pushed unceremoniously aside. It is the burden of this paper to outline this problem (section 1); to challenge both the usual connection between determinism and predictability and the relevance of the argument leading from deterministic chaos to determinism (section 2); and finally to suggest that, for those who see prediction as an essentially probabilistic enterprise, unpredictability may promise an even more severe headache than is currently envisaged (section 3). It is only fair to say in advance, perhaps, that I am an indeterminist. This seems once more to be an unfashionable position, but I hope that it is still a sustainable one.
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Journal or Publication Title: | LAW AND PREDICTION IN THE LIGHT OF CHAOS RESEARCH |
Publisher: | SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN |
Editor: | Weingartner, P and Schurz, G |
Official Date: | 1996 |
Volume: | 473 |
Number of Pages: | 12 |
Page Range: | pp. 103-114 |
Publication Status: | Published |
Title of Event: | Conference on Law and Prediction in Natural Science in the Light of Our New Knowledge from Chaos Research |
Location of Event: | INST WISSENSCHAFTSTHEOR INT F0RSCHUNGSZENTRUM, SALZBURG, AUSTRIA |
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Investigation under way in Metro bus collision with SUV
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April 8, 2010
Several people were slightly injured when a Metro bus and a sport utility vehicle collided Wednesday night in downtown.
The crash occurred about 10:45 p.m. at Caroline and St. Joseph Parkway, police said.
The bus and a Chevrolet Trailblazer slammed into each at the intersection and then the bus hit a tree.
The six passengers on the bus complained of minor injuries and were taken to St. Joseph Medical Center. The bus driver was not injured.
The SUV driver and her passenger also were reported to have minor injuries and were taken to Memorial Herman Hospital.
The conditions of the people are unknown.
The cause of the crash is still being investigating, but Metro officials said that both drivers said they had a green light.